Antiques and Collectables

**A 2025 book to look out for by the Guardian and Sunday Times** This strikingly original account fr...

In The Search for the Codex Cardona, Arnold J. Bauer tells the story of his experiences on the trail of a cultural treasure, a Mexican “painted boo...

Cultural property and its stewardship have long been concerns of museums, archaeologists, art historians, and nations, but recently the legal and p...

A stylish and beautifully crafted celebration of LV’s Tambour watch, a masterpiece of modern design and technical innovation. Published to mark ...

The Model Shop was a special department at the Stanley Rule & Level Company where all new products and custom and special rule prototypes were ...

An engaging, accessible introduction to reading and understanding early modern English manuscripts This engaging book provides an essential introdu...

Every year brings hundreds of new wristwatch designs, with aesthetic and mechanical changes and improvements, limited-edition watches, and new prod...

Two themes uniting the essays in this collection are the provenance and history of medieval manuscripts during the Middle Ages, and the fates that ...

The Collector’s Voice is a major four-volume project which brings together in accessible form material relevant to the history and practice of coll...

The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii in A.D. 79 also buried nearby Herculaneum. Over time the location of the small town was forgott...

Robert Smit tells a story about an empty house and the people who lived in it. He tells his story with his jewellery, inviting the reader to one of...

In 1902 the world went teddy bear crazy when Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt refused to shoot a captive bear while on a hunting trip. His immortal words...

From the 16th century until well into the 18th century, the commedia dell'arte, a popular Italian type of improvised comic theatricals, cast its sp...

According to Roman law, 'furniture' was described as 'any apparatus belonging to the head of the household consisting of articles intended for ever...

The leaping deer from the range of wooden toys from the Seiffen region is an international symbol in the gleaming eyes of children and collectors a...

(from the book) The year was 1978 and I was sitting in the back booth of the Pizza Hut in Mulvane, Kansas, splitting a deep pan with my good frien...

English dry-bodied stoneware was the ultimate ceramic expression of the neoclassical wave which erupted in England and on the Continent in the mid-...

Surprisingly, this is the first book to be devoted to British Ironstone China and the related stone china and granite ceramic bodies. Yet they are...

This concise yet wide-ranging survey of collectable antique furniture, illustrated throughout in full colour, guides the new collector through almo...

(from the book) The year was 1978 and I was sitting in the back booth of the Pizza Hut in Mulvane, Kansas, splitting a deep pan with my good frie...

In 1951, while Herb served as a cryptographer with the US Air Force in Munich, Germany, he purchased his first pieces of beer memorabilia: eight be...

Silver elevates use, not only for the diverse religious rituals of Southern Asia, but also consumption of and access to once-new items: photographs...

In May 2007, leaving China’s Great Wall is Car 84, one of 128 antique autos racing in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge. It’s guided by one Dina ...

Cocktail and Barbie lovers rejoice-The Official Barbie Cocktail Book is here! The cocktails, mocktails, and drinks featured in this book, alongside...

Road Masters offers a fun and informative overview of the five most important cars from the major car-makers around the world. Author Dave Morley a...

Spanning some 350 years, the Thomson Collection of historic ship models contains examples of exquisite workmanship and some of the masterpieces of ...

Why do we collect? Is it to rescue objects from oblivion? Is it a kind of desire - or even a kind of madness? In this mosaic of fiction, philosophy...